Iphone 5 keeps switching to silent on its own

My Iphone 5 is stuck on silent mode, or more accurately it keeps switching to silent on its own.

The problem started about 2 days ago, after upgrading to iOS 7.1 last week. The phone keeps switching in and out of silent mode (without the button being touched) and mostly stays in silent. It's not a speaker problem, nor a settings problem, as I’ve checked every bit of online advice I could find. I tried restarting, resetting, restoring, cleaning the headphone jack, and nothing helps.

An attempt to see if it’s a headphone related issue (by plugging and unplugging while restarting in various combinations) got it working fine for about 5 minutes, then it switched back to silent.

Needless to say, the phone did not suffer from any physical damage prior to the problem.

iPhone 5, iOS 7.1

Posted on Apr 3, 2014 1:04 AM

22 replies

Nov 13, 2015 6:15 AM in response to Arun Dhwaj

Arun Dhwaj wrote:

In iPhone 6, IOS-9.1

Go in "Settings" -> "Do Not Disturb" -> "Manual" == Make it off.

Its solved my problem.

However, it would not solve the OP's problem which is with the physical switch on the side of the phone.

Mar 15, 2016 11:50 AM in response to AdiRR101

Had the same problem on iphone 4 . ringer kept switching to silent . Tried restore etc brought to GSM centre and they said the switch to

turn from silent to ringing gone faulty , They replaced it in 60 mins charged 30 euro

Bctmedia

Level 1

10 points

Oct 24, 2016 5:04 AM in response to AdiRR101

Realized that this has been happening since I updated and often turn on 'Do not disturb' so I won't hear sounds from incoming calls, tweets, messages etc.. Except I forget to turn it off in the morning... so when a call comes in it does not ring not because it is on silent as it isn't -but because I directed my calls to do not disturb with only vibration not sound...

Bitsyf

Level 1

12 points

Mar 8, 2017 3:29 PM in response to Arun Dhwaj

Thank you, turning Do not disturb to manual worked!

Mar 23, 2017 8:39 AM in response to Bitsyf

Me too. It doesn't make sense, but my ringer has stopped self muting

Jun 2, 2017 12:54 PM in response to AdiRR101

How can i solve this problem

LauZhen

Level 1

8 points

Jul 27, 2017 1:18 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

How to fix this issue ?

Sent from my iPhone

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Iphone 5 keeps switching to silent on its own